Autonomous Quotes
86 quotes by 80 authors
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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
— Theodor Adorno
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Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another…
— Dan Simmons
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The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence…
— Ravi Zacharias
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If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.
— Pierre Duhem
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There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
— David Buss
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Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.
— Theda Skocpol
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There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from…
— Eric Hoffer
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The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive…
— Christopher Hyatt
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I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
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The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference.…
— Robert K. Greenleaf
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This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an…
— Louis A. Johnson
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In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible…
— B.F. Skinner
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In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising their autonomous right…
— Robert L. Reymond
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A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules
— Robert Axtell
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A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no…
— Henry H. Arnold
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Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more…
— Daniel H. Pink
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In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort…
— Roman Jakobson
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A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
— P.J. O'Rourke
Who Wrote These Autonomous Quotes
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